Decrepitude

Definition: Decrepitude

Decrepitude

Noun

1. A state of deterioration due to old age or long use.

Date "decrepitude" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonym: Decrepitude

Synonym: dilapidation (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Age	Noun: age; oldness; Adjective: old age, advanced age, golden years; senility, senescence; years, anility, gray hairs, climacteric, grand climacteric, declining years, decrepitude, hoary age, caducity, superannuation; second childhood, second childishness; dotage; vale of years, decline of life, "sear and yellow leaf"; threescore years and ten; green old age, ripe age; longevity; time of life.
Deterioration	Decline, declension, declination; decadence, decadency; falling off; Verb: caducity, decrepitude.
Weakness	Declension of strength, loss of strength, failure of strength; delicacy, invalidation, decrepitude, asthenia, adynamy, cachexy, cachexia, sprain, strain.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Decrepitude

English words defined with "decrepitude": Crazedness ♦ Decrepitness. (references)

Etymologies containing "decrepitude": Decrepitness. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Decrepitude" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Portuguese (decrepitude, impotence, impotency).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Accelerated decrepitude. (Blade Runner; writing credit: Philip K. Dick; Hampton Fancher)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	One would have said it was the mask of Decrepitude shrivelled by a flash in the night.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Decrepitude" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Decrepitude" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	23	72,767

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "decrepitude"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		dobësim (breakdown, debilitation, decline, depravation, dilution, ebb, emaciation, emasculation, enervation, exhaustion, failure, flagging, wane, weakening), rënie (abatement, bathos, collapse, come down, decadence, decadency, decay, decline, degeneracy, degradation, degression, depression, descent, dilapidation, downfall, drop, drop off, fall, falling, flop, incidence, lapse, letdown, precipitation, prolapse, recession, regress, spill, taper, tumble, wane). (various references)

Arabic		‏تداع, ‏عجز (balk, buttock, deficiency, disability, emasculation, failure, famine, gap, inability, incapability, incapacitate, incompetence, infirmity, paralyse, paralysis, paralyze, poorness, posterior, rump, shortage), ‏ضعف (attenuation, backwardness, crack, craze, debility, defect, delicacy, emaciation, enervation, failing, failure, fainting, feebleness, flabbiness, flightiness, frailness, frailty, grogginess, imitators, impairment, impotence, inadequacy, incapability, infirmity, lameness, languor, limp, limpness, shakiness, sickliness, sleeplessness, tenuousness, twice, uneasiness, weak spot, weaklings, weakness), ‏بلى (yeah, yes). (various references)

Bulgarian		разнебитеност, грохналост (senility), немощ (anility, debility, feebleness, infirmity, prostration). (various references)

Danish		senilitet (dotage, senility). (various references)

Finnish		vanhuudenheikkous (senility), raihnaisuus (weakness). (various references)

French		délabrement, décrépitude, débilité sénile, sénilité, caducité (deciduous nature). (various references)

German		Hinfälligkeit (frailness, invalidity), altersschwäche (dotage, infirmity, infirmity (of old age), senile decay, senility). (various references)

Greek		έσχατο γήρασ, σαραβαλιασμένοσ (decrepit, dilapidated, wrecked). (various references)

Hungarian		rozogaság, elaggottság (caducity). (various references)

Italian		decrepitezza. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		老朽 (superannuated). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ろうきゅう (basketball, superannuated). (various references)

Manx		mellid (backwardness, deliberateness, deliberation, dullness, faultiness, feebleness, flimsiness, poorness, slowness), anheiltys (disability, helplessness). (various references)

Pig Latin		ecrepitudeday

Portuguese		decrepitude (impotence, impotency), caducidade (dotage). (various references)

Romanian		decrepitudine (decrepitness, senility), slãbiciune (debility, defect, droop, failing, faintness, feebleness, flimsiness, foible, infirmity, languor, leanness, liking, propensity, shortcoming, tenuity, weakness), ramolisment (soft-mindedness), neputinţã (disability, emasculation, helplessness, impotence, impotency, indefensibility, infirmity, palsy), boşorogealã (helplessness). (various references)

Russian		ветхость (disrepair), маразм (marasmus), истощение (attenuation, attrition, consumption, debilitation, depletion, distress, drain, emaciation, exhaustion, extenuation, goneness, inanition, leanness, tabescence). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		trošnost (dilapidation, friability), oronulost (disrepair). (various references)

Spanish		decrepitud. (various references)

Swedish		skröplighet (frailty, infirmity), fallfärdighet. (various references)

Turkish		dermansızlık (atony, debility, exhaustion, senility, sinking), köhnelik (fustiness, mustiness, oldness), ihtiyarlık (dotage, old age, senescence, senility). (various references)

Ukranian		стареча, старезність (age, anility, caducity, senility), ветхість (dilapidation, disrepair), неміч (infirmity), дряхлість (caducity). (various references)

Vietnamese		tình trạng lụ khụ tình trạng hư nát, tình trạng hom hem, tình trạng gi� yếu, tình trạng đổ nát (dilapidation). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "decrepitude": decrepitudes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Decrepitude" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: decrepitud, decreptitude, decreputude, decripitude. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "decrepitude" (pronounced 'De*crep"i*tude'): Acerbitude, Acritude, Altitude, Amaritude, Amplitude, Anxietude, Aptitude, Assuetude, Attitude, Beatitude, Certitude, Claritude, Colatitude, Consuetude, Crassitude, Crebritude, Definitude, Desuetude, Disertitude, Disquiettude, Dissimilitude, Dulcitude, Egritude, 'Etude, Exacritude, Fessitude, finitude, Firmitude, fortitude, gratitude, habitude, hebetude, inaptitude, incertitude, Indefinitude, ineptitude, Inertitude, inexactitude, infinitude, ingratitude, inquietude, Insuetude, Inverisimilitude, lassitude, Lenitude, Lentitude, Limpitude, Lippitude, magnitude, Mansuetude, Mollitude, Multitude, Necessitude, Nigritude, Overmultitude, Pinguitude, Platitude, Plenitude, Promptitude, Pulchritude, Quietude, rectitude, Sanctitude, Senectitude, Serenitude, servitude, similitude, solicitude, solitude, Spissitude, Torpitude, turpitude, Unitude, Unquietude, Vastitude, Verisimilitude, Vicissitude. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-d-e-e-e-i-p-r-t-u"
	-2 letters: pedicured, predicted, preedited, receipted.
	-3 letters: credited, decrepit, depicted, depicter, deuteric, directed, pedicure, pictured, preceded, precited, redecide, reedited.
	-4 letters: creepie, cuprite, decider, decreed, decried, deedier, deputed, detrude, epicure, erected, eructed, erudite, erupted, eucrite, petered, picture, pierced, precede, predict, preedit, receded, receipt, recited, reduced, reputed, tierced, updried.
	-5 letters: cerite, credit, creped, cuddie, curded, curite, deceit, decide, decree, deduce, deduct, deeper, deiced, deicer, depict, depute, deride, deuced, dieted, dieter, direct, ducted, edited, educed, peered, peerie, perdie, perdue, pieced, piecer, pierce, precut, priced, prided, pureed, putrid, recede, recept, recipe, recite, redipt, reduce, reeded, reedit, repute, retied, tedder, tierce, tiered, trepid, triced, truced, ureide, uretic.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-d-e-e-e-i-p-r-t-u"
	+1 letter: decrepitudes.
	+5 letters: underappreciated.
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